Dear EISCAT community, We are getting ready to make changes on our portal.eiscat.se webpage. They will be done in several steps starting today and continuing over the Christmas and New Year period. As the first step we will disable location-based download from our present portal page today. To be able to download data and later to use our portal pages we are asking you to register in the EISCAT Virtual Organisation. Information with links where to apply is attached here but also can be found and downloaded: https://cloud.eiscat.se/s/WjQCxQbxkBoNCLe If you are not a member of EISCAT VO yet and you are applying for a specific associate group you will be asked to submit two applications when using the link. So please follow through the whole form. If you didn't use EGI checkin services yet, you will be asked to register as a member of EGI community first. It is better to make this step separately before at https://aai.egi.eu/signup Please remember to always use the same account for identification. (Institutional accounts or ORCID are preferred.) First application for general membership (download of public data) is approved automatically. The application for your specific group has to be approved by the group manager, as each Associate manages their groups independently of EISCAT, and thus in some cases it can take up to several days until it gets approved. You should receive automatic emails from the EISCAT VO on the perun system once each of these applications is approved. For the next step we will disable experiment request submission next week (on 11th of December) once the submissions for January are closed. The changes on the portal entail also a revamp of the campaign request submission system. To be able to submit requests on the new portal pages you have to be member of a request subgroup. Membership in this subgroup depends on the rules of your associate and has to be communicated with your individual managers. The plan is to change the webpage in a suitable timeslot just before Christmas depending also on the staff availability. We will try to change the pages as smoothly as possible but we expect there will be outages in accessibility of the portal page over the Christmas and New Year period. The submission of campaign requests for February will be open once we are sure with the new page. I will inform you about the progress of the changes and resuming of the service through this mailing list. Mária -- Mária Miháliková, PhD Staff Scientist, EISCAT Bengt Hultqvists väg 1, 981 92 Kiruna, Sweden Work phone: +46 (0)72 5813347 e-mail: maria.mihalikova(a)eiscat.se